Successful concepts will not only lead to better cuisine in space, but will potentially help bring fresh ideas to food back on Earth. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a35429728/nasa-deep-space-food-challenge/

I'm used to my nextdoor having posts like "Missing cat."

So it took me a while to realize that "Missing Southern style fried catfish with hush puppies with slaw" was just someone asking for restaurant recommendations.

Iceberger: Draw an iceberg and see how it will float https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

"If you’re not ready for the responsibilities of a dog or a cat, Panasonic has introduced yet another companion robot that dutifully pays attention to you through bouts of flatulence." https://gizmodo.com/resisting-the-urge-to-pet-panasonics-farting-robot-sock-1846252962

A Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/

“Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.”~~ Ansel Adams, born today in 1902

'The rapper 50 Cent, whose hit “In Da Club” was the recipient of Billboard magazine’s inaugural Ringtone of the Year award in 2004, released a whole series of original jingles.' https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/02/17/how-the-iphone-killed-the-custom-ringtone

>> The term “Caucasian” originated from a growing 18th-century European science of racial classification. German anatomist Johann Blumenbach visited the Caucasus Mountains, located between the Caspian and Black seas, and he must have been enchanted because he labeled the people there “Caucasians” and proposed that they were created in God’s image as an ideal form of humanity.
https://www.sapiens.org/column/race/caucasian-terminology-origin/

A 12th-century Islamic bathhouse was hiding behind the walls of a Spanish tapas bar. It was discovered during pandemic renovations. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/18/islamic-12th-century-bathhouse-uncovered-in-seville-tapas-bar

"Cruz’s error is not that he was shirking a duty he knew he should have been performing. It’s that he couldn’t think of any way he could use his power as a U.S. senator to help Texans in need. That’s a failure of imagination and of political ideology."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/ted-cruz-no-hypocrite/618060/

78rpm Records Digitized https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

Venetian beads were found at an Alaskan archaeological site. They’re evidence that European objects reached North America before Europeans. http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/venetian-glass-beads-arctic-alaska-09357.html

A guy sat next to me in the bus today and pulled out a photo of his wife. He asked me, “Ain’t she beautiful?”

I said, “If you think she’s beautiful, you should see my wife.”

He replied, “Why, is she a stunner as well?”

I said, “No, she’s an optician.”

A flash mob recreated The Night Watch by Rembrandt https://www.youtube.com/watch?mc_cid=cd30d3af2c&mc_eid=89b7e25825&v=a6W2ZMpsxhg&feature=youtu.be

Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found. It could make enough beer to serve a modern-day sold-out stadium. https://www.futurity.org/beer-history-ancient-egyptian-brewery-2519142/

Morris Library’s Special Collections Research Center has Fuller’s personal library of more than 3,000 volumes; part of a recent donation of artifacts and furniture to the R. Buckminster Fuller Dome Not-For-Profit.

(We lived in Bucky's Deer Isle house for a year so have special affection for him.)

https://news.siu.edu/2021/02/021821-Morris-Library-receives-Buckminster-Fullers-books-for-research,-study.php

“The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.”—Fred Astaire

"The present moment demands serious inquiry into why decades of trying to make information literacy a universal educational outcome hasn’t prevented a significant portion of the population from embracing disinformation while rejecting credible journalistic institutions." https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2021/02/how-librarians-can-fight-qanon/618047/

Jungle breath: a jungle wilderness simulator for relaxing, sleeping or working
https://defonic.com/jungle-rain-generator.html

Digitized versions of more than 500 music manuscripts.

https://www.themorgan.org/music